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Issue - Mar 2010

Attending Excel course is a Pointless Waste of Time for Executives and Managers

In today's corporate world, most managers and executives
are proficient in using the computer. Thus, it is not at all
difficult for them to pick up the basics of MS Excel,
a common application used by every organisation. The basics of
Excel can be mastered in less than an hour. And when encountering
a problem related to opening and saving workbooks, entering data
and numbers into cells, sorting, auto-filtering, modifying the data
in a spreadsheet, just to name a few, they can easily grab and ask
someone around them, such as colleagues, their spouses, siblings or
even their parents. So, attending a basic Excel course would be
a complete waste of time.

In an Advanced Excel course, managers and executives are
taught how to use templates, auditing tools in Excel and tons of
formulas that are hardly used in their day to day jobs. Furthermore,
a typical Excel trainer conducts only technical training and usually
does not have the practical experience or view on how Excel is used in
the pragmatic corporate world. Each of the formulas and functions is
taught in isolation without any real business context applied. No
matter how familiar these trainers are with the formulas and
functions of Excel, they would not be able to demonstrate on the
spot the real power of Excel by solving real business problems
that challenge managers and executives on a daily basis. As such,
attending an Advance Excel course is also a complete waste of time
and money for managers and executives.

If a manager or executive wished to attend an Excel course, it
HAS TO BE a course that can help them solve real, unique Excel
problems in the corporate environment. Knowing what each Excel
function does is not enough. The course must reveal the secrets
of tweaking the formulas and also show how formulas and functions
can be combined. Learning this skill will help to automatically
convert raw data into quality business information speedily without
the common manual copying and pasting. So, a real time saver for
any manager or executive!

Having quality business information and not able to analyse
it is a common serious problem faced by managers and executives.
Therefore, what they need is to learn how to make use of the powerful
and yet simple functions to analyse the business data they have,
either directly from the system or from the data processed using
Excel formulas. Combining functions together can automate the entire
business reporting process and leave more time for business managers
and executives to interpret the data. Hence, a must-have in
an Excel course.

Our training is developed by practitioners who are constantly
working on Excel through consultancy works with our clients.
Therefore, we have a view to the issues faced by most managers
and executives who usually are not even aware that the work they
are doing now can be reduced to mere minutes! Our courses have
proven to save managers and executives as much as 90% of the
time they spent on Excel. That is 45 times more than the
productivity target set by the government. Our course graduates
no longer have to perform frequent laborious manual copying and
pasting of data from one cell to another or from one worksheet
to another (By the way, do you know that a normal user will do a
copy and paste once every 5 mouse clicks?). The skills they
acquire in the course help them speedily clean and re-organise
data accurately without human error. Processing the data accurately
now take them no more than 5 minutes, compared to a typical Excel
user who takes at least half a day for the same task.

Click on this
Excel
Courses page and check out which course(s)
your managers and executives should attend. Alternatively, contact us
now at 6873 9946 or email us
at enquiry@everydayexcel.com
for advice on which of our excel training programs is suitable
for you.

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